Clowns, augustes, buffoons, troubadours, and acrobats are characters in perpetual motion - wanderers, vagabonds, figures of the street. Yet even they, one day, need a roof over their heads, and they call for a theatre of their own. Not an opera house, nor a classical playhouse, but a Balagan-Theatre - inspired by fairground big tops, open to all audiences, adaptable to circumstance, and welcoming to experimentation.
The Fund’s team is made up of performance artists who have travelled across half the globe. They know the nature of theatre, its very spirit, and they know it's backstage like no one else. We now dream of the ideal Balagan-Theatre: a space with room for laughter and silence; where anything may become a stage, where spectator and performer exchange roles in the blink of an eye - a theatre open to the world yet preserving the mystery of performance.
We have found its home at the far end of the Jardin du Moulin Jaune, on the threshold between open countryside and the town of Crécy La Chapelle. At times, it will merge into the joyful revelry of the Jardin’s carnival; at others, it will become the town’s own theatre. True to its fairground origins, it will offer everything needed to make theatre happen: a library for inspiration, and a workshop floor for creation. Built of wood and straw, it is designed for an ongoing collective invention - where craftsmen work alongside clowns, architects with stage technicians, and, of course, spectators.
The Fund’s team is made up of performance artists who have travelled across half the globe. They know the nature of theatre, its very spirit, and they know it's backstage like no one else. We now dream of the ideal Balagan-Theatre: a space with room for laughter and silence; where anything may become a stage, where spectator and performer exchange roles in the blink of an eye - a theatre open to the world yet preserving the mystery of performance.
We have found its home at the far end of the Jardin du Moulin Jaune, on the threshold between open countryside and the town of Crécy La Chapelle. At times, it will merge into the joyful revelry of the Jardin’s carnival; at others, it will become the town’s own theatre. True to its fairground origins, it will offer everything needed to make theatre happen: a library for inspiration, and a workshop floor for creation. Built of wood and straw, it is designed for an ongoing collective invention - where craftsmen work alongside clowns, architects with stage technicians, and, of course, spectators.
Balagan-Theatre
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OUR PHILOSOPHY :
Creation, Transmission, Knowledge
OUR PROJECTS :
Publishing, Festival-Spectacle, Library, Exhibition-Archive, Balagan-Theatre
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CONTACTS
MAIN PAGE
OUR PHILOSOPHY : Creation, Transmission, Knowledge
OUR PROJECTS : Publishing, Festival-Spectacle, Library, Exhibition-Archive, Balagan-Theatre
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CONTACTS
OUR PHILOSOPHY : Creation, Transmission, Knowledge
OUR PROJECTS : Publishing, Festival-Spectacle, Library, Exhibition-Archive, Balagan-Theatre
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CONTACTS